By Timothy Alexander Guzman on July 21, 2016
On June 28th 2009, Honduran soldiers marched into the bedroom of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya while he was in his pajamas and forced him at gunpoint to walk into a waiting jet and exiled him to Costa Rica. (more…)
July 24, 2016.
A massive demonstration of approximately 200,000 people wound its way through the streets of the Chilean capital of Santiago on Sunday, with participants calling for an end to the country’s private pension system. (more…)
By Andrew Lawler on July 22, 2016
Basra Iraq, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The round hole made by an artillery shell was visible long before we pulled up next to the National Museum in Baghdad in early May of 2003. The puncture, just below a frieze of a king in a chariot, was in the replica of a Babylon gate next to the exhibit halls. (more…)
By Carolyn Guniss on July 13, 2016
America’s prisons are filled with older inmates, most of whom are Black
The research dates back more than a decade: Americans are aging in prison. But what has been done about reducing the elderly population in prison or what to do with the elderly once released is still being debated and studied. (more…)
By Ricardo Alarcón on July 22, 2016
In the mid-20th Century, U.S. diplomacy scored one of its greatest triumphs. It made the world believe that Puerto Rico had ceased to be a colony to become a strange entity called the “Associated Free State,” or commonwealth. (more…)
By Arnold August on July 24, 2016
Today, progressives throughout the world could learn many lessons from the July 26, 1953, Moncada attack led by Fidel Castro.
The Moncada, Photo: Bill Hackwell
In 1953, when virtually all the progressive and revolutionary forces in Cuba offered no viable solution to oppose the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship, Fidel Castro and his comrades did indeed work out a path. (more…)
Press TV on July 23, 2016
More than a dozen civilians are dead or injured after US warplanes launched fresh airstrikes in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo. Local sources said warplanes hit targets in al-Nawajah village east of of Manbij on Saturday, leaving at least 15 people dead or injured. (more…)
By Britney Schultz and Candice Bernd on 21 July 2016
Throughout the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, protesters have kept issues of poverty, racism and systemic police violence in the spotlight, even as Republicans attending the convention attempted to swerve the national debate on these issues toward the right. (more…)